The cat is a political symbol — again. Again, because more than 100 years ago, two women campaigning cross-country for women's suffrage adopted a cat, making the feline a sign of their movement.

Languages: English and Italian. A cat owner from New York defended holding his feline in "air jail" after getting a "ton of comments saying how awful [he] is" for holding him that way. In a post ...

Cats — coded as passive and associated with the home, as opposed to more active, masculine dogs — became a symbol of anti-suffragist propaganda. Many cartoons showed men at home with kids and ...